Papers on Literature and ArtJohn Wiley, 1848 |
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... geniuses , the flower and fruit of a higher state of development , which might give the young who are soon to constitute the state , a higher standard in thought and ac- tion than would be demanded of them by their own time . I have ...
... geniuses , the flower and fruit of a higher state of development , which might give the young who are soon to constitute the state , a higher standard in thought and ac- tion than would be demanded of them by their own time . I have ...
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... genius . Next to in- vention is the power of interpreting invention ; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty . And of making others appreciate it ; for the universe is a scale of infinite gradation , and , below the very ...
... genius . Next to in- vention is the power of interpreting invention ; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty . And of making others appreciate it ; for the universe is a scale of infinite gradation , and , below the very ...
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... , and the safety of pure motive , we will not talk with him , for we cannot confide in him . We will go to the critic who trusts Genius man . and trusts us , who knows that all good writing A SHORT ESSAY ON CRITICS . 7.
... , and the safety of pure motive , we will not talk with him , for we cannot confide in him . We will go to the critic who trusts Genius man . and trusts us , who knows that all good writing A SHORT ESSAY ON CRITICS . 7.
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... geniuses , the soul shines as through a mask , or , at best , a crystal ; we look behind a shield for the heart . But , with those of seraphic nature , or so filled with spirit that translation may be near , it seems to hover before or ...
... geniuses , the soul shines as through a mask , or , at best , a crystal ; we look behind a shield for the heart . But , with those of seraphic nature , or so filled with spirit that translation may be near , it seems to hover before or ...
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... genius , I congratulate myself Secure of fate , while neither am I downcast by any terrors , Nor store up secret griefs in my heart , But pass my days cheerfully in the midst of mishaps , Despite the evils which engird the earth ...
... genius , I congratulate myself Secure of fate , while neither am I downcast by any terrors , Nor store up secret griefs in my heart , But pass my days cheerfully in the midst of mishaps , Despite the evils which engird the earth ...
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Términos y frases comunes
admiration Ambla Artevelde artist Bach beauty Beethoven better breast brother calm character Charles Wesley charm child clavichord critic Dædalus deep delight divine drama earth excellent expression faith fancy feel felt flowers fugue genius give grace Handel happy harmony harpsichord Haydn hear heart heaven honour hope hour human intellectual interest J. S. Bach less light literature lives look Lord Madame de Staël means melody mind misanthropy Mozart muse nature never noble o'er Paracelsus passages passion perfect Philip Van Artevelde picture play pleasure poems poet poetic poetry present Prince rich seems Senesino Shakspeare Sir James Mackintosh song soul speak spirit stars Strafford SWEDENBORGIANISM sweet sympathy taste tender thee things thou thought tion tone true truth verse whole WILLIAM THOM wish words Wordsworth write
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Página 69 - What thou art we know not: What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not...
Página 35 - Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Página 37 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Página 72 - A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift — A Love in desolation masked; — a Power Girt round with weakness; — it can scarce uplift The weight of the superincumbent hour; It is a dying lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow; — even whilst we speak...
Página 85 - A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A stifled, drowsy, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet, no relief, In word, or sigh, or tear O Lady!
Página 29 - Fra Pandolf" by design: for never read Strangers like you that pictured countenance, The depth and passion of its earnest glance, But to myself they turned (since none puts by The curtain I have drawn for you, but I...
Página 30 - In speech (which I have not) to make your will Quite clear to such an one, and say, "Just this "Or that in you disgusts me; here you miss, "Or there exceed the mark...
Página 86 - To lift the smothering weight from off my breast? It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
Página 73 - The wind, the tempest roaring high, The tumult of a Tropic sky, Might well be dangerous food For him, a Youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of Heaven, And such impetuous blood.
Página 69 - Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire ; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.